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AP English Language and Composition Dialectical Journal for The Land Remembered Creating and maintaining a dialectical journal will help you tremendously as you read your novel over the summer.
What is a dialectical journal? “A dialectical journal is a CONVERSATION between YOU and WHAT YOU ARE READING. You simply write down PASSAGES that MAKE YOU THINK, or INTEREST YOU, and write about your thoughts. This process is an important way to understand a piece of literature. By writing about literature, you make your own meaning of the work in order to truly understand a piece of literature. When you do this yourself, then the text belongs to you—you have made it yours. The passages are there for everyone to read; however, the connections and interpretations are uniquely yours.” – definition from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory In your word document, create a table like the one. Label one for each of the four required categories:
Form and Structure
Purpose/Tone/Style
Imagery and/or Detail
Rhetorical Devices
YOU MUST HANDWRITE your responses into the table and number them, please.
Important Excerpts/Passages from the Text Use quotes from the text in quotation marks followed by pages numbers in parenthesis.
Your Commentary/Reaction/Connection What is happening? How much time is covered? What patterns do you notice? Evaluate/Question/Explain/Predict/Connect
TEMPLATE 2of4: Purpose / Tone / Style (at least THREE passages for this category)
Important Excerpts/Passages from the Text Use quotes from the text in quotation marks followed by pages numbers in parenthesis.
Your Commentary/Reaction/Connection What is the author trying to accomplish? What argument(s) is he/she trying to make? What is the author’s attitude toward the subject? How is TONE revealed through DICTION and SYNTAX? Evaluate/Question/Explain/Predict/Connect
TEMPLATE 3of 4:**Imagery** and or Detail (at least THREE passages for this category)
Important Excerpts/Passages from the Text Use quotes from the text in quotation marks followed by pages numbers in parenthesis.
Your Commentary/Reaction/Connection The imagery of a literary work comprises the set of images that appeal to the senses. Look for recurring images (light/darkness, colors, clothing, odors, sounds). Point out details (numbers, facts, description) the author uses to support the argument. How are these images and/or details used? What emotions do they EVOKE? Evaluate/Question/Explain/Predict/Connect
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Dialectical Journal for The Land Remembered
Creating and maintaining a dialectical journal will help you tremendously as you read your novel over the summer.
What is a dialectical journal?
“A dialectical journal is a CONVERSATION between YOU and WHAT YOU ARE READING. You simply write down PASSAGES that MAKE YOU THINK, or INTEREST YOU, and write about your thoughts. This process is an important way to understand a piece of literature. By writing about literature, you make your own meaning of the work in order to truly understand a piece of literature. When you do this yourself, then the text belongs to you—you have made it yours. The passages are there for everyone to read; however, the connections and interpretations are uniquely yours.” – definition from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
In your word document, create a table like the one. Label one for each of the four required categories:
- Form and Structure
- Purpose/Tone/Style
- Imagery and/or Detail
- Rhetorical Devices
YOU MUST HANDWRITE your responses into the table and number them, please.Use quotes from the text in quotation marks followed by pages numbers in parenthesis.
What is happening? How much time is covered? What patterns do you notice?
Evaluate/Question/Explain/Predict/Connect
Purpose / Tone / Style (at least THREE passages for this category)
Use quotes from the text in quotation marks followed by pages numbers in parenthesis.
What is the author trying to accomplish? What argument(s) is he/she trying to make? What is the author’s attitude toward the subject? How is TONE revealed through DICTION and SYNTAX?
Evaluate/Question/Explain/Predict/Connect
Use quotes from the text in quotation marks followed by pages numbers in parenthesis.
The imagery of a literary work comprises the set of images that appeal to the senses. Look for recurring images (light/darkness, colors, clothing, odors, sounds). Point out details (numbers, facts, description) the author uses to support the argument. How are these images and/or details used? What emotions do they EVOKE?
Evaluate/Question/Explain/Predict/Connect
Use quotes from the text in quotation marks followed by pages numbers in parenthesis.
Look for examples of LOGOS (an appeal to the audience using LOGIC), PATHOS (An appeal to the audience’s EMOTIONS), and ETHOS (an appeal to the audience’s ETHICAL or MORAL BELIEFS)
Evaluate/Question/Explain/Predict/Connect
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